Thyrza by George Gissing

570 pages first pub 1887 (editions)

fiction classics reflective slow-paced
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First published in 1887, Gissing intended Thyrza to "contain the very spirit of London working-class life." His story tells of Walter Egremont, an Oxford-trained idealist who gives lectures on literature to workers, some of them from his father's ...

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